According to MRN.com, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France set a goal of speeding up the track-drying process by 80 percent. NASCAR’s Research and Development center has been developing the new machine.

"Our group in the R&D center went right to work on that,” France said Tuesday night on MRN’s "NASCAR Live." “We engaged third-party help and we'll have it for Daytona. We won't be at 80 percent, but we're going to be dramatically better with a whole new system on how to dry the track as much as 60 percent (faster) and we will get to the 80 percent goal."

The ultimate goal is to dry a 2.5-mile track like Daytona in 30 minutes instead of two hours and a short track like Martinsville Speedway in 15 minutes.

According to France, the new air-powered machine is followed by a vacuum system that will make the process both faster and better for the environment. It eventually will eliminate the current process of using jet dryers powered by jet fuel.

Juan Pablo Montoya’s car crashed into a jet dryer during last year’s Daytona 500, causing the jet dryer to burst into flames and leading to another two-hour delay.

"We're patenting some technology that (uses) air pressure," France said. "Think of it as giant tanks, scuba tanks, that drive air out and blow water — or anything else — off the surface in a dramatically better way. It's a big solution. We're not (all the way) there yet, but it's ready now."